The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

JOHN WANAMAKER is to build hotel in Phil
adelpha for women who earn their own livincs.
BALTIMORE American: We violate no conf
dence when we say that Gentle Spring mas cold
feet
THE Rev. James Freeman Clarke has
gained lis health sufficiently to return to his
study.
THE German Emperor suffers from frequent
drowsiness and is apt to fall asleep whenever
seated for any length of time.
WASHINGTON Critic: The Governor Of Mas
sachusetrs has appointed April as day Of
fasting and prayer in that State. in order to
save beans enough for spring planting
IT is remarkable that the difference between
Admiral Farragut and Senator Jones, of Florida,
lies in the fact that the former was dashed TO the
mast and the latter is mashed to the last
PITTsBURa glass-worker has, after sixteen
years experimenting, succeeded in producing
specimens Of colored glasses equaling the finest
ever made. His name and his process are both
secret.
WHEN Mr.. Robert Garrett and party were in
Princeton recently, they used local hackman's
conveyance nearly all day. The Jehu asked $50
for it, but Mr. Garrett cut tue bill down nearly
so per cent before he paid it.
ANTHONY BARRIos, son of the late President
Of Guatemala is student of West Point and
young Zarala. son of the man who overthrow
and caused the death of President Barrios is
also at West Point. and is his classmate.
Mr. RUsKIN's violent utterances against the
Ambleside railway recall that when railways
were first built in England and for many years
thereafter, he persistently refused to ride on
them, but travelled about in coach with horses
THE late Daniel Davis. of Princeton, Mass.
was once one of tho foremost electrical experts
| in America. He is said to have made many
valuable inventions. including the art of electro.
/ tipping in copper which, had they been patented
| would have made him many times millionaire.
| Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine
| was a workman in his shop.
| FRESH outburst Of Carlyle literature auec-
| dotes and sayings comes from the publication of
the Life and Writings of Anne Gilchrist
most perfect woman he had ever known. Her
stories about Carlyle are in a rather more amia-
| BILE light than other recent literature. Some
interesting AUTOGRAPH letters Of Carlyle are
coming into the market
| THE following authors will read from their
| own writings on the afternoon Of the 3lst inst,
| at the Boston Museum, in aid of the Longfeliow
| memorial fund: Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. DIR.
| Oliver Wendell Holmes. Hon. James Russell
| Lowell Mr.. r.. B. Aldrich Mr. George William
Curtis. Mr.. W. D. Howells, Rev. Edward Ever
| cit Hale, Mr.. Samuel L. Clemens and Col. T.
w. HlgElnSOn. IL ls expected tnas Mr. w nlttlor
will be present. Prof. Charles Eliot Norton
| will preside.
| ONE Of the most learned colored men in the
country is Alexander Crummell, rector of ST.
Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, Washing
ton, D. c. When ne desired to study for holy
| orders he applied at Kenyon College, Gambler.
! O., but was refused admission. He made appli-
| cations elsewhere, which were equally unsuccess-
| fnl He finally went to Oxford. England. and
| there took full course. He is an eloquent
| preacher and his congregation embraces large
| number Of prominent colored citizens.
| SAYS the Boston correspondent of the Mime
| apolis Tribune: "A friend of mine who manages
a book room where the works of Swedenbore.
the great seer. and other literature of the new
church are the principal commodity, tells me
| some amusing examples An old fellow came in
| one day and asked for the complete works of
| Plato On being told that they did not keep
| Plato he asked if they had anything from .anv
| of the other Unitarians.' Another seeker asked
| if this Mr. Swedenborg was the same m an that
used to preach out at Roxburye'
| AN interesting bit OF building a. Concord will
be the addition, this season, OF wide veranda
on the west side of the old Hawthorne house,
"The Wayside,' now owned. and in the summe.
occupied. by the publisher Mr. D. Lothrop an d
| his wife, who is known to the many readers of
| her books as "Marearet Sidney" Mr. and Mrs.
| Lothrop have hesitated about making any chang
es IN the house, wishing to preserve it as it was
left by Hawthorne. but the addition OF a veranda
will add much to the pleasure of life at 1.-The
| Wayside" that the building has finally been de-
| cided upon.
Sol SMITH RUSSELL is going to settle in Min.
| neapols, and he is going to take his father-in-
law, William T. Adams, with him. William T.